Better to leave dreams behind and go forward with purpose.

Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.

I would destroy the city if something happened to you. I can't even bear the thought of it.

Some people get dealt all the aces in life.

Sometimes that is the best part of a hard day.

Lies from the closest to you are often the most numerous and paralyzing.

Sometimes one appears to have more freedom than one actually possesses. It is easy to see what one wishes to see.

...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer.” Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her.

No one is fine on his own. People just say they are.

I feel like I failed, " I said. "Don't beat yourself up, " Jim said. "She might not have turned out like you planned, but that don't mean she turned out wrong.

And I played music through the night, alone, echoing through the halls. My life, alive through note.

Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

Life is amazing, isn't it? You can't ever tell what will happen. Nobody knows until they go ahead and play the game.

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.